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A54594	The revelation unvailed, or, An essay towards the discovering I. When many Scripture prophesies had their accomplishment, and turned into history, II. What are now fulfilling, III. What rest still to be fulfilled, with a guess at the time of them : with an appendix, proving that pagan Rome was not Babylon, Rev. 17, and that the Jews shall be converted / by Samuel Petto.	Petto, Samuel, 1624?-1711.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1901; ESTC R33395	87,755	184

nothing else but the Kingdom of Babylon and the power of the strong hunter Nimroth when they Burnt Luthers works he burnt the Bishop of Romes Law and the Decree then lately published openly Ib. l. 2. So Calvin Melancthon Zwinglius and many others as well as Luther scorched men with Fire as Rev. 16. 8. and this is a sure Direction when this Vial was poured out viz. when men by their Preachings Writings Disputations c. denounced Fire and Brimstone and the greatest Torments against such Worshippers and so it is explained Rev. 14. v. 9 10 11. If any worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his fore-head i. e. openly or in his hand i. e. secretly v. 10. The same shall drink the Wine of the Wrath of God poured out without mixture and shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone which was clearly fulfilled in Luther and Calvins time How many Countreys and Kingdoms by such Preaching fell off from Rome and took up Reformation as desiring to preserve themselves from that Fire which therefore scorched the Papal party After a Disputation Religion was Reformed not only at Bernes but also proclaimed by Magistrates in sundry places thereabouts Masses Altars Images abolished in all places They wrote the day and year wherein they forsook the Popish Religion upon a Pillar in Golden Letters that it might be an everlasting memorial to their Posterity Likewise they of Geneva did imitate them of Bernes wherefore the Bishop and Clergy forsook the City in anger Then the Reformers began to be called Protestants of whom there were seven Princes The Protestants made a League that if any did stand in danger for Religion one might help another Ib. li. 6. Another symptom of its being then poured out is the great following persecutions raised by the Bestians being incensed by the torment of this fire as Rev. 14. 12. Here is the Patience of the Saints i. e. here at this time is the tryal of their patience that even death it self shall be desireable v. 14. Blessed are the dead answerable to which in the fourth Vial it is said Rev. 16. 9. men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God and repented not All which was manifestly accomplished for after Luther and Calvin and others had proclaimed fire against the worshippers of the Beast they repented not witness the Council of Trent wherein they sought to establish their Abominations and then followed the great and sore Persecutions in most Kingdoms of the Beast in the West as France Spain Germany Bohemia England all which give evidence that then the fourth Vial was poured out 5. The fifth Vial is poured out upon the Throne of the Beast Rev. 16. 10. and the effect is his Kingdom is full of Darkness and they have anguish and indignation gnawed their Tongues Throne either is the Government of the Beast his Soveraignty and Authority as Psal 89. 36 37. Psal 122. 5. and if it be taken thus then this Vial might be poured when the Popes Supremacy was cast off by Protestant Princes as Hen. VIII Edw. VI. Q. Eliz. Duke of Saxony Brandenburgh and when Popish Orders and Branches of that Government were rejected The German Princes told the Popes Ambassadors they acknowledged not his authority in such matters and Q. Elizabeth would not suffer them to come into the Land Sympson of the Church p. 408. Or the Throne of the Beast most properly is the chief place of his residence wherein he appeareth in his highest Majesty and Glory And this Vial was poured out upon Germany or the German Empire since Ann. 1600. especially by Gustavus Adolphus I know many think the City of Rome to be the Throne of the Beast which this Vial falleth upon but the City of Rome is the Woman Rev. 17. 18. or whore of Babylon which sitteth upon the Beast v. 3. and so cannot be the Throne which the Beast sitteth upon And the more improbable is it that Rome should be this Throne for when a Vial cometh upon that it is with an utter destruction Rev. 18. and so it is by the sixth Vial whereas the fifth Vial doth not destroy but darken the Kingdom of the Beast It will be hard or impossible to prove that the Throne of the Two-horned Beast the Pope is intended here and if it be of the Ten-Horned Beast then although the Throne of the Dragon was given into his possession yet he made it not as his Throne For when the Beast was very young the Emperour did not take up his residence at Rome but at Ravenna Sigon de Reg. Ital. 1. speaking of Ravenna saith Postremo Honorius eam sibi atque Occidentis Imperio sedem urbe Rom. relicta constituit quod institutum Successores quoque illius tam Imperatores Rom quam Reges Gotthorum custodierunt That as Honorius was enthroned not at Rome but at Ravenna so other Emperours till Augustulus Ann. 475. and then there were no Emperours in the West or at Rome till Carol. Magn. Ann. 800. Neither have the Emperours ever since to this day made the City of Rome their Seat or Throne but Germany and there are seven Electoral Heads and Ten Horns or Provinces in the West as the Beast Let the Throne then upon which this fifth Vial falleth be Germany especially seeing the event doth admirably answer there to all that is said of this fifth Vial. For the Case was thus as it 's said Some Seeds of Division being sown by the proscribing and forcing Donawerdt on the occasion of a Tumult at a Procession there and mastering Gulick the German Protestants received the Alarm and assembled at Hall and the Catholicks at Wirtsburgh This quickly did fly like Wild-fire filled all Germany and involved all Europe in a prodigious War some compare it with that of Zisca and the Bohemians I shall give some short account of it out of J. Parival History of the Iron Age and shall refer to the Book it self for a larger and fuller discovery of it He speaketh much in favour of the Papists but declareth himself in this manner I abhor to begin the Discourse of the longest and most cruel War that ever was in Christendom and which drew more Blood more altered the Christian Faith and caused more ruine and desolation than all that ever were in Europe ib li. 3. c. 1. And Ann. 1630. Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden invited by the Germans incited by France England Venice the United Provinces as also by his own peculiar interests entered Germany with an Army was sure of his Allies and of the inclination of all the Protestants whose Cause and Religion he came to defend King Gustave takes Francfort beats the Imperialists cleansed Pomerania Ambassadours of the Princes Imperial Towns and Protestants States treated an Alliance with King Gustave These sparkles encompassed all Germany with a Fire which lasted till the year 1649. ib. cap. 17 18 19 20. Gustave worsted Tilly before the Fort of Werbern being joined

his to dwell in he would cease spoiling of the Country Honorius not knowing how to recover France and Spain from the Suevians Vandals c. giveth Alaricus Power to go into France confirmed this Grant with an Oath Alaricus steering his Course towards France Sti●ico against the Covenant followeth him and made a great slaughter Alaricus not the least suspecting it before Hereupon the Goths snatching up their Arms and Alaricus exasperated by this injury and violation of Covenant turned back into Italy was●ing with Fire and Sword and at last Rome it self was taken by him Socrat. 1. 7. c. 10. Cent. 5. c. 16. Funcc●●● And whereas some grant that the sixth Head of Emperours was wounded and would have the Popes obtaining Headship to be the healing I confess I understand not how a wound in one Head should be healed by the rising up of another I think the wound is never healed unless the same Head that was wounded recovereth again But this is a granting the thing for it is not a Head of the Dragon but a Head of the Beast that is wounded Rev. 13. 3. One of his Heads and therefore if it be the sixth Head of Emperours that is wounded then that first Beast is not the Roman State under the seventh Head but under the sixth Head of Emperours 4. The first Beast is the Whore-ridden Beast Rev. 17. 3. I saw a Woman sit upon a Scarlet-coloured Beast v. 4. 5. Rev. 13. 1. Now the Pope is rather carried by the Whore than the Beast that carrieth her and therefore this Beast is not the Pope Nor is the Turk this first Beast for this Whore doth not ride upon the Turk nor is Constantinople the City which in the days of John reigned over the Kings of the Earth nor did the Turk arise the same hour with the Crowning of the Horns as Rev. 17. 12. but hundreds of years after yet I deny not that the Turk may belong to the Beast after he obtained some Territories belonging to the Horns of the Beast It is therefore a Civil State of the Roman Empire 5. The Beast is both an eighth King and of the seven Heads Rev. 13. 1. And Rev. 17. 3 11. The Beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and 〈◊〉 the seven There were but six when the 〈◊〉 did arise and the wound was of the sixth 〈◊〉 as I have proved and so must the ei●●th be some distinct new kind of Government and if the 〈◊〉 Beast Rev. 13. 1. were Popes and the sev●●th Head at his first rising then the Beast could not be the eighth and of the seven For I ask what distinct kind of Government or State of the Empire came after Popes to make an eighth King If it be said the Christian Emperours before the rising of the Beast I add that it was the same State of Government under Pagan and Christian Emperours though the qualifications and Actions of Governours were different both were Emperours And seeing after the sixth Head of Emperours two Beasts so different each from other are mentioned Rev. 13. 1 11. It is to me a wonder that men should not seek a way how the other six might by these two Beasts be made up eight Kings Thus the first Beast Rev. 13. 1. hath Ten Crowns upon the Horns or Kingly Government there which made a different sort of Government from the other six and so may be deemed a seventh King or sort of Government or an eighth if we will count it after Popes who maketh another as 2 Pet. 2. 5. God saved Noah the eighth Person the meaning is that there were seven saved besides Noah he was not the last of them in order but did make up that number So Rev. 17. 11. The Beast is the eighth that is there are seven besides seven others and so with him there are eight The Beast is the eighth in number not necessarily that he is eighth or last in order Hence he a●deth and of the seven he doth not say he is the seventh so warily doth the Apostle speak here It is said of this Beast it was is not and yet is Rev. 17. 8 11. was in its Ten Horns crowned before the deadly Wound is not in respect of perfect Headship when wounded for the Head is said to be wounded as it were unto death Rev. 13. 3. and yet is when the Wound was healed Rev. 13. 3. 6. The Pope obtained not any Civil Supremacy over the Empire till hundreds of years after the Horns were crowned and so after the first Beast was ●● therefore the first Beast Rev. 13. 1. is not the Pope or seventh Head For the crowning of the Horns or their receiving Power as Kings is the same hour or the first hour with the Beast Rev. 17. 12. All the former Heads were Civil Heads as Kings Consuls c. and therefore so must the seventh be also And indeed how is it possible that Popes should be reckoned a Head of the Roman State or Civil Monarchy or succeed and come in the place and stead of the sixth Head of Emperors which was a Civil Head until they obtain a Civil Supremacy as Emperors and others had ●hocas his constituting Boniface the third Universal Bishop Anno 606. is evidence enough that the Bishop of Rome had not then obtained a Civil Supremacy but was under the Head of Emperors still seeing he was beholden to them even for his Ecclesiastical Supremacy and yet the first Ten Horned Crowned Beast was up long before this Indeed there is evidence that a long time after the crowning of the Horns yet Emperors were the Supream Head and the Popes of Rome subordinate or subject to them Bonifacius writing to Honorius saith God hath given you the Regiment of worldly things and the Priesthood to me Even the Councils for spiritual matters were called by the command of Emperors many years after as Phil. Morney Knight in his Mystery of Iniquity hath largely proved And claiming Supremacy or aspiring after Civil Headship is no obtaining it any more than John Bishop of Constantinople his claiming and assuming the Title of Universal Bishop about Anno 590. did make him Ecclesiastical Head over the Bishop of Rome in that day The Temporal Supremacy of the Pope cannot be proved until a long time after and so he could not be the first Beast And to say that his Ecclesiastical Power made him the first Beast and his Temporal the second is to invert the Order of Rev. 13. 17. which ascribeth that to him as a second Beast 7. All the other Characters of the first Beast agree to the Civil State of the Empire with ten Horns crowned persecuting and so the complex body of them or as headed by Emperours make that Beast Rev. 13. v. 3 4. When the Wound was healed then all the World wondred after the Beast Charles was called the Great because then he was so much admired And they worshipped the Beast To worship him is eidem

subjici i. e. by civil subjection to him noted by worship Gen. 27. 7. and 37. 7. and 49. 8. Isa 45. 14. Saying Who is like unto the Beast who is able to make War with him So early they admired the Horns of the Beast as the Goths and Vandals and their great Power and others as Attila King of the Hunns who after the death of Ecius grew so mighty that he overthrew the Imperial General and Army took many Cities and was held for the most powerful Prince in the World and was so much feared that Martianus the Emperor sent to sue for Peace and sent him Presents See Imper. Histor and v. 5 6 7. made War with the Saints Obj. 1. It 's a mark of Perdition to worship the first Beast Rev. 13. 8. but it is not so to yield civil subjection to Civil Power A. 1. It is not made a mark of Perdition The Text doth not shew the danger of worshipping the Beast but describes him by the multitude of Reprobates that are admirers of him See Brightman Civil subjection may lawfully be yielded to the Civil Power of those who are over-much honoured by many who shall perish 2. If a corrupt Religious Worship must be intended which is not proved yet this agreeth to the first as a Civil Persecuting Beast For it is a Scarlet-coloured Beast i. e. a cruel Persecutor Rev. 17. 3. warreth with the Saints Rev. 13. 7. a blasphemer of God v. 6. And divers of the Ten Horns in their first rising were such being either Pagans or in Pagan Worship or Arrians blaspheming his Name and Tabernacle i. e. Jesus Christ and latter-ward it was a Whore-ridden Beast Rev. 17. 7. And to magnifie him in these corruptions or in that wherein he is a Beast is pernicious yea compliance with him in Persecution is an evident token of Perdition Phil. 1. v. 28 29. And thus it may be a mark of Perdition though the Pope be not the first Beast Obj. 2. There is but one Beast mentioned Rev. 17. 8. which is the interpretation of Rev. 13. A. Beast is a name common both to the first and second and so Rev. 17. may notifie the whole Beast-state in distinction from Dragon-state Rev. 12. they are sufficiently diversified Rev. 13. and need not be so again in Rev. 17. When compared each with other they are two Beasts differenced from each other by many notes of distinction but when differenced from Dragon both agree in the common name of Beast As the Roman Monarchy from first to last is called a fourth Beast Dan. 7. v. 3 19 23. yet that will not deny Dragon and Beast to be distinct each from other part of its time But their being two is implied Rev. 17. v. 10 11. There is another and an eighth which agrees with the word King in gender and there cannot be an eighth King i. e. different Government if there were not two Beasts In short Beast without distinction may be taken promiscuously either for the first or second Beast as the matter enforceth but it noteth most commonly the first Beast or whole Roman State after it ceased to be under Dragon i. e. after Pagan Headship ended and may be understood either of its after Headship or the complex body of the crowned Horns comprizing the Roman Territory or Provinces in East and West the same that the Dragon had before But Beast when with distinction is usually taken for the first Beast Thus when Beast and false Prophet are distinguished the false Prophet is he that worketh Miracles Rev. 19. v. 20. which is the second Beast Rev. 13. v. 14. and therefore the Beast distinguished from him must be the first Ten-horned Beast So when Beast and Image are distinguished Rev. 14 9 11. and 15. 2. and 16. 2. and 19. 20. and 20. 4. The first with Ten Horns crowned is intended by Beast for it is an Image of him that received a Wound by a Sword and did live Rev. 13. 14. which was the first Beast v. 1 3. not the second It is the second Beast which had power to give life to the Image of the Beast and work Miracles and that in his sight v. 15 and so he cannot be the Beast it self whose Image is animated and hath life given to it and in whose sight those Miracles are wrought but the first Also when Beast and Woman are distinguished as Rev. 17. there Beast signifieth the first Beast at least till the rising of the seventh Head and this in so many of the Horns as were ridden by the Whore of Babylon after she arose v. 3. So when Beast and Dragon are distinguished Rev. 13. 1. and 16. 13. there Beast noteth the first Beast or so many of the Horns as were professedly Christian and were ridden by the Whore and Dragon noteth such as were not professedly Christian for we must note that all the Horns of the Beast were not of the same Spirit or Religion About the time of their first crowning some were Dragonish Pagans Rev. 12. v. 13 14. Others professedly Christian and corrupt some Arrians as Goths Vandals c. and towards the latter end of the Beasts Dominion some Horns or Provinces are Dragonish not professedly Christian Rev. 16. 13. The Turk has part of the Territory of the first Beast Rev. 13. 1. others are Popishly affected By all which it appeareth that there is no necessity that the Pope should be the first Beast And although herein I differ from other Interpreters yet I am more for them than against them the matter being rightly stated especially seeing hereby I extricate them out of many difficulties where they are at a loss for a ground in their fixing the Epocha of the Prophetical days on the Pope which I hereby prove should be taken from another Beast viz. The first Civil Ten-horned crowned persecuting Beast CHAP. III. Of the Two-Horned Beast the Pope Rev. 13. 11 Rule 3. THAT the Two-Horned Beast is the Horn of Ecclesiastical Power is a false Prophet by his second Horn of Temporal Supremacy became the seventh Head of the Roman Empire This appeareth for all the Characters of this second Beast agree to the Pope and to none else As 1. He arose out of the Earth Rev. 13. 11. not from Heaven but from below from Satan and carnal earthly men and means Not out of the Sea or Confluence of People and Nations as the other v. 1. but had a mean Original from a poor Bishop at last ascended to this dignity 2. He hath Two Horns like a Lamb. Horns denote Power Rev. 17. 12. Dan. 8. 5. So the Pope usurpeth a twofold Power Temporal and Spiritual The first Horn of Ecclesiastical Power arose in the time of Phocas Anno 606. who made Boniface the Third Universal Bishop This was a new Institution and not only a Declaration for Statuit he ordained Hic i. e. Phocas sedem Romanae Apostolicae Ecclesiae caput esse omnium Ecclesiarum quia Ecclesia Constantinopolitana

most corrupt in those days ●b lib. 28. c. 8. Yea they over-ran those parts even to the Suburbs of Constantinople and besieged that but at last were repulsed Sccrat lib. 4. c. 31. and others 2. When the Body of the Roman Empire was changed from its Ancient form of Provinces into the form and shape of Crowned Horns then the Beast was up For it 's said in the days of John Rev. 17. 17. They have received no Kingdom as yet but receive power as Kings one hour or the first hour with the Beast The rising then of the Beast and the crowning of the Horns are about the same time This Beast is differenced thus from the Dragon that he the Beast hath his Crowns Emblems of Soveraignty upon his Horns Rev. 13. 1. and from the two Horned Beast that he hath more than two even Ten and upon his Horns Ten Crowns Not that they must all be up first so as the rising of the tenth Horn should give the first date to the Beast For they are all Horns of the Beast and therefore speak a Beast up for them to grow upon and they receive Power as Kings One hour with the Beast Rev. 17. v. 12. Not the Beast one hour with them intimating the Beast to be first in order rather than otherwise But as the Dragon is said to have seven Heads Rev. 12. 3. When as the seventh Head of Popes was not up till Dragon Pagan Power was down so as well may this be called a Ten Horned Crowned Beast Rev. 13. 1. Before all the ten were Crowned because there were to be so many principal ones and ten may not be taken precisely neither more nor fewer but indefinitely for many as Numb 14. 22. Job 19. 3. Gen. 31. 7. Now before Ann. 400. diverse Horns were Crowned see an Elaborate book Entituled Antichrists Excidium which proveth the riseing of the Kingdom of the Alemanes Ann. 356. the Ostrogoths Ann. 377. the Visogoths Ann. 378. the Hunns Ann. 378. and others even ten about Ann. 410. Therefore then the Beast was up 3. When the Dragon gave unto Crowned Horns in the Roman Empire his Power Throne and great Authority then the Beast was up For it is the Beast he gave these to Rev. 13. 2. the Dragon gave him i. e. the Beast his power 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strength or force distinguished from authority and so it is outward strength or military power his Throne i. e. the City of Rome or a Government there and great Authority so as to become a lawful ruler within the Roman Empire Now all this was given before or soon after Ann. 400. For Crowned Horns had power such military power as they did wage War with the Emperours as the Goths and others and after the death of Valens they over-run Thracia and spread themselves even to the Suburbs of Constantinople and besieged that Am. Marcell l. 31. c. 14. 15 16 17. Alaricus King of the Goths occupyeth Thracia Graecia Athens Corinth and other Cities c. Returneth to Italy Calvis Ann 395. The Hunns destroyed Armenia and other Countries of the East Socrat. l. 6. c. 1. By Armenia brake into Asia and besieged Antioch Calvis Ann. 395. Gainas with an Army of Goths over-ran the Eastern Empire and Constantinople was in great danger Socrat. l. ● c. 6. Gildo usurped Africa Magd. Cent. 5. C. 16. And his Throne the City of Rome was given to crowned Horns for Alaricus King of the Goths took it about Ann. 410. It is true this was a little after Ann. 400. But it proveth the Beast to be up before having such great power as aforesaid It is true Alaricus then did not keep Rome long but then he took possession of the Throne And it is not said the Beast kept the Throne but that the Dragon gave it to him and afterward also Gensericus King of the Vandals sacked Rome And after the Goths reigned over Italy about 70 years Yea Crowned Horns obtained in the Roman Empire great Authority for before Ann. 400. Valentinian the Emperour made a league with Macrianus King of the Alemanes and ratified it by ●ath about Ann. 374. Am. Marcell lib. 30. c. 4. Afterwards Valens granted some Countries in Thracia to the King of the Goths about Ann. 376. and so he became a crowned Horn. ib. lib. 31. c. 4. Socrat. Diacon and consider whether this was not the birth-day of the Beast this being the first crowned Horn that received not only Power but Authority in the Roman Empire I might mention other Leagues as between the Emperour Honorius and the Goths and so with Theodosius and others All this argueth that the Beast was up before Ann. 400. 4. When the deadly wound was given to one of the Heads then the Beast was up For it was a Head of the Ten-Horned Beast that was wounded as it were unto death Rev. 13. v. 1 2. And so the Beast must then exist and be up to receive the wound Now this deadly wound was made when Alaricus sacked Rome and perfected at Augustulus Indeed this act was after Ann. 400. but it presupposeth the Beast to be up and so we may reckon that he did rise before Ann. 400. And here note 1. It is not the Pope but this ten Horned Beast who in respect of his first State is said to continue a short space Rev. 17. 10. For it is not said the seventh Head but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another i. e. another of the eight Kings with whom the word agreeth not another Head There were eight Kings and but seven Heads this was another King or State of Government when the Empire was so broken and changed from its antient form and shape of Provinces into crowned Horns and this was but a short time before it was wounded even unto death Whereas the seventh Head the Pope hath continued a longer time than any of the other Heads if compared with them And further to confirm this he immediately addeth the different States of the first Beast v. 11. was and is not and yet is as before v. 9. and so was is before wounding this short space is not is when wounded yet is is after healed 2. If the first Beast be the man of sin 2 Thes 2. 6 7. Then the lett which hindred not meerly his rising but his revelation must be imperial power which was removed by the aforementioned breakings and woundings of it But if it be the second Beast then the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is their Imperial Authority and it was removed when Popes over-topped and assumed power over Emperours as Hildebrand and others Rule 6. That the Eastern parts belong to the first Ten-Horned Beast as well as the Western This is denyed by some but seeing it conduceth to the clearing up of truths and some material points I shall give these grounds of it 1. The same Dominion which the Dragon i. e. Pagan Emperours had the same the Beast hath Compare Rev. 12. 2. and 13. v. 2.